This tutorial is focused on usage of Hibernate with Spring 3 framework. I will show that how a basic end to end application flow looks like as a result of this integration. Employee management screen Development environment Eclipse Juno IDE JDK 1.7 JBoss 7 Maven Spring 3.0.5 Hibernate 3.6.3 Download source code For those, who are not using maven for dependency management and are relying on downloaded jar files. I have created another project with all required jar files included in source code to download. Also, I have done integration using Spring 3.2.5 and hibernate 4. So if you fall into any of above two category, please read below linked post in case any problem. Spring 3.2.5.RELEASE and Hibernate 4 Integration Example Tutorial with All Jar files To build this example project, I will guide you step by step. I this way we able to walk through some concepts also. Step 1) Create a maven web application using below command from comman...